Master Yi Guide - By Reginald

Reginald's Master Yi.

Forest Yi


Summoner Spells: Rally, Exhaust

Runebook:
Nine Red Armor penetration runes, Quintessence of Desolation = 24 armor pen.
Nine Yellow Evasion runes = 6.7 % dodge
2 Furor Quentessence and 9 Furor blue Runes = 17% Crit Damage.

Offensive Tree
Masteries:
3 Deadliness
1 Exhaust
4 Alarcrity
3 Sunder
2 Offensive Mastery
3 Brute Force
3 Lethality
1 Improved Rally
1 Havoc
Offense:21

Defense Tree:
Masteries
3 Hardness
1 resistrance
4 Evasion
1 Nimbleness
Defensive: 9

Items to start:

Elixir of Agility
5X health potions.
First Skill at level 1 : Alpha Strike.

Initiate the lizard with Alpha strike.
Chug a potion.
At the beginning of the game, have 2-3 people help you get lizard buff. Make sure to tell your teammates to backoff, when the lizard is about to die-- this will give you more exp. ( Do not use ur agility potion yet)

After leveling up to level 2, get a talent point into wuju style.

Go to the Life Leeching Neutral spawn.( chug agility potion ) Then Alpha strike the creeps. After leveling up to level 2, get a talent point into wuju style.
You want to chug another health potion while doing these creeps to keep your health points at maximum. Next you go to the neutral spawn next to your golem, Alpha Strike and kill those (with a potion).
By now, you would two potions left, lizardbuff and an agility potion(used).
Now you would meditate up to full life. and go kill the golem.
When killing the Golem use your improved rally.
After killing the golem meditate up to full health points.


Crucial Point
The benefits of that agility potion is that it helps you kill heroes easily. However if you're not getting any hero kills, you will fall behind in gold. It is important you remember the heroes summoner spells and target the ones without flash.
From this point on, it is very important that you gank with the buffs you have : Lizardbuff, Golem buff, Agility potion.
Look for a lane, that has enemy heroes pushed up near your tower. Position yourself that when you engage in battle, you must be comming from directly behind them. Assuming that you dont fail in your gank-- you should have first blood.
Recall back after, and buy lifesteal(450) Boots( 350) agility potion ( 300) 1100. You should easily have this amount of gold with firstblood.
Now that you have: Boots, agility potion(first one still in use), lizardbuff and golem buff, you want to gank another lane.
Master yi is a very fast paced hero, and ganking is very important with Jungle Yi.
Continue this process, constantly look for lizard buff and golem buffs and constantly gank lanes. Hero kills are much more gold than creeps.
1 hero kill = 10 -13 creeps.
If this strategy is done correcty- outleveling their solo is very easily done.
Basic builds on Master Yi:
Beserkers greaves and infinity's edge is a must , with these two items alone-- master yi can crit 500-600 easily.
Against tanks you would want a last whisper as well.
Against tank teams:
Berserkers greaves
Infinity's edge
LastWhisper
Starks fervor

make sure always to include the (450 gold lifesteal) in every build at the beginning.

Against nukers:

Damage is very important however staying alive is a must.
Accumulate items in this order:
berserkers greaves
Lifesteal (450)
Infinity's Edge
Banshee's veil
then make starks fervor.
Depends on the situation, Items for Master yi varies. However berserker greaves and infinity's Edge is a must. (life steal as well).

Master Yi is all about positioning and dealing damage. Something very important about Master yi is you must pick off their most squishy hero's before dealing with their tanks.
When engaging in a team fight, you dont want to be the one to initiate but not the last either. You should wait until afair of spells are casted before engaging.
Similar to ganks, wait until the enemy hero has used their nuke/ flash/ or stun, then engage and kill them. Sometimes players forget to constantly activate Highlander( it is very important to keep this up.)
Speak with your teammates on vent, and tell them to let you get the last hit on heroes to refresh your highlander. Playing Master yi takes alot of communication with your teammates.
The secret to winning games with Master yi is early game domination- it leads to late game domination.

Anyways this is how i think Master yi should be played and I will be writing up another guide of how to solo Master yi in the near future.